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3 Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series and VMware vSphere | 3922-BP-VM
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 ME4 Series features ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Virtual and linear storage .................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Enhancing performance with minimal SSDs ...................................................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Automated tiered storage ................................................................................................................................... 8
2.2.2 Read flash cache ................................................................................................................................................ 8
2.3 Asymmetric Logical Unit Access ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.4 RAID data protection levels ................................................................................................................................ 9
3 Connectivity considerations ........................................................................................................................................ 10
3.1 Direct-attached storage .................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 SAN-attached storage ...................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.1 iSCSI fabric settings ......................................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.2 Fibre Channel zoning ....................................................................................................................................... 12
3.3 Physical port selection ...................................................................................................................................... 13
4 Host bus adapters ...................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.1 Fibre Channel and SAS HBAs .......................................................................................................................... 14
4.2 iSCSI HBAs ...................................................................................................................................................... 14
5 ME4 Series array settings .......................................................................................................................................... 15
5.1 Missing LUN Response .................................................................................................................................... 15
5.2 Host groups ...................................................................................................................................................... 15
5.3 Log file time stamps .......................................................................................................................................... 16
6 VMware vSphere settings .......................................................................................................................................... 17
6.1 Recommended iSCSI vSwitch configuration .................................................................................................... 17
6.2 Recommended multipathing (MPIO) settings ................................................................................................... 18
6.2.1 Modify SATP claim rule .................................................................................................................................... 18
6.3 ESXi iSCSI setting: delayed ACK ..................................................................................................................... 19
6.4 Virtual SCSI controllers .................................................................................................................................... 19
6.5 Datastore size and virtual machines per datastore .......................................................................................... 19
7 VMware integrations ................................................................................................................................................... 21